Apparatus foe suspending- eaves-troughs



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES A. WATROUS, OF GREEN SPRING, OHIO.

APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING EAVES-TROUGHS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 18,113, dated September 1, 1857.

- T o all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JAMES A. WATRoUs, of the village of Green Spring, in the county of Seneca and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Suspending Eaves-Troughs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in a round cross-bar for the trough, to which is attached a tin loop, the ends of loop eX- tending from the bar to any desired length and passing through a slot in the end of a metal plate, to be fastened upon the roof so that the ends of the loop after passing through the slot in the metal plate, may be turned down to the right and left respectively, and clenched, so as to fasten and hold the trough in the required position.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will describe its construction and operation:

I construct my eaves trough A Figure 1 in any of the usual forms, and construct a round bar B1, Fig. 2, of sheet tin or other metal, of any required length and flat-tened at each end; and in connection I loop around the bar, B2, a strap of tin plate or other metal D1, Fig. 4, forming two straps above the bar B2, Fig. 3, any lengt-hrequired. The edges of the loop around the bar, B2, Fig. 3, next to the cornice G Fig.

:of the straps.

represented in Fig. 1, in such a position that the slot F in themetal plate C2 will project over the end of the shingles, so as to admit the double strap D3, Fig. 6, and so that the eaves trough may be brought up to any desired point, or lowered the length The straps D3, Fig. 6, are then, as there represented, bent down to the right and left respectively and turned under the metal plat-e C3, so as to form a lock or clench, securing the eaves trough in its place.

I do not claim the suspending of eaves troughs by bolts and nuts as patented by Woodru'; but

I claim as new and of my own invention- The employment of a metal strap D1 in combination with the cross bar B1 and the slotted plate C1 for securing and readily adjusting the eaves troughs.

JAMES A. WATROUS.

itnesses:

D. F. TAYLOR, I. F. DEATRICK. 

